Peugeot. You can tell a bike is french when its all weird sizes.

To change gears on old pre-war bikes you had to take off the rear wheel and turn it around to use the sprocket on the other side of the hub. I had a couple very old bikes with this feature, threads for gears on both sides of the hub. Some had a freewheel on one side and fixed, track style, gear on the other.

Coolski. More bike companies then bikes...

At 14:16 it's stated that the Tour was won on a Pinarello bike from 2012 to 2019, however the Tour of 2014 was won on a Specialized bike.

you missed Specialized/Nibali in 2014 - super cool video though!

I see Peugeot all the time since I do a lot of work on outdated bikes!

Ι prefer hardtails/ not for the lowest cost but bc i prefer their clean look and low cost maintenance . Also a 1.500 hardtail is a very good one but a 2.000 full suspension is a mid one

I have deore now on my emtb but i think i will buy a drivetrain that wares less when this one gets wore out

Nice video. Just a few tips about pronunciation: "La Française" is not pronounced "Lah Franswah" but more like "Lah Franseyze" " Alcyon" is not pronounces "Asselone" but more like "Al-see-on"

I don't understand wearing deore early.

Great video

Pretty sure Merckx rode, for the most part, DeRosas. So did the rest of his Molteni team.

I wonder if the narrator's head is going to explode when he discovers that steel is an alloy.

there is no such thing as cheating in cycling , lance didnt cheat , he smashed those euros to peices with their own programs, give lance his wins back, he was out there like everyone and finished, cheating is only defined by the UCIs rules on substances, thats pretty weak seeing as they change it to suit themsleves so they can control who can be the best !!!!!!!

does any one keep a bike for more than 3 years

The book "Butcher, Blacksmith, Acrobat, Sweep" is a great read documenting the first Tour de France. It is incomprehensible to us now how the riders completed such a test. Oh, did I mention they rode at night a good deal of the time?

My heart says full suspension but my budget says hardtail and honestly the cheap front shocks that I have to run I might as well go hard front too!

Why does it have to be either or when I have one of each, roscoe 9 and special 125 al 5

I'm male and I use a bike for women (with seat for males). It's perfect. I don't understand why bikes for males have that upper frame bar

Enjoying my trek M6 Gen 3 dessert trail here in KSA ✌️😎

How about making a video on the bikes that were outlawed? There's been a number of those.

Ppl who say it's the rider not the bike make me sick 🤢

The next innovation is high speed wheel balance systems. Fact is, balanced wheels on a bike offer far more performance than aerodynamics on a bike. But if you combine the two, things get real fast real quick.

Full sus since 95, wouldn’t go back ever

27.5” crew use me for like button

Great job, I really enjoyed the history and the tech. What about, "the history of tour support?" When did the racers stop changing their own tires when they flat? When did the tours go from individuals to teams? When did the support system begin: team cars, spare bikes, team bus, mechanics bus, etc. etc. I would think this would be more difficult to research butI know you guys can do it.

1956 Tour De France was won by Roger Walkowiak riding a Riva Sport bicycle built by Alphonse Thomann who built several TDF bicycles. I own a 1956 frame built by Riva Sport Cycles. It has Vitus tubing and Nervex Lugs. I set this frame up as fixed gear with a rim choice that will support large tires. I run 33cm tires. i ride this bicycle regularly and is a great ride. Btw, it was 1965 that Gimondi rode the Bianchi with all the new Campagnolo parts like new hub and brakes. Great video and thanks

How naive it is to think that cyclists did not dope before the Lance era, that they did not dope after it, and that they don’t dope today.

I want a Wilier

I still ride a 2010 BMC SLX01, thing beats me up but I'm too cheap to upgrade.

Quite hilarious and sad you ignored the 7 year dominance of Trek winning with Lance, 2006 was BMC's first victory and Specialised's first victory on 2010 was with Alberto at Astana.

Freeze development sometime between 1990 and 2000. Similar to the "athlete's hour." The racing would be just as good, if not better. Normal people could afford a competitive race bike. Mechanics wouldn't have to buy all new tools every few years. Yea, pretty much everything would be better.

Knowing what they accomplished back in the day, makes it kind of ridiculous to glorify modern professional cyclists.

Disco was dead by the 80s, boo boo. But there were some super cool bike designs before the cycling authorities clamped down on innovation.

Do a story on the different performance enhancement riders have used throughout history..

Great video 👍 Next innovation? With electronic shifting now so common , how about auto shifting gears based on a preset cadence threshold, especially for regular cycling nerds like myself 🤷🏻‍♂️

good review .. but that background music is unbearable.. thumbs down

I loved the caveat about knowing that the athletes, not the bikes win the tour, but let's be honest... throughout long periods of the history you covered it was the doping (mech, pharm, etc.) that pushed select riders and bikes ahead of their peers.

Nibali won the tour in 2014 on a specialized so you're going to have to redo the video... :p

You never mention 531 tubing, or don't you know about it. The bikes might have been made in Italy or France, but they all used it? It was made in UK. And the guy who used it was Reg Harris, the world sprint champion for 14 years!

Both...

A great video! Thank you!

Full spot lineup so many 2 of each… I’m very spoiled

Deore should be able to handle 4 to 5 seasons of really shitty shifting. It’s always been able to until recently.

Lance is still the best. The rest have not been caught… simple

he said bike nerd bike nerd me

Very chaotic.

"The top spot temporarily went back to Europe with Cervelo winning the Tour in 2008." Gerard Vroomen and Phil White would like a word with you. Cervelo was a Canadian company in the 2000s. And YOU made the choice not to cover all the Trek models Lance won on, which would have made this video better. Don't act like you could not, because the UCI stripped Armstrong of his titles. The entire sport was doped to the gills from the early 90s until . . .well it probably still is. It's silly to pretend Armstrong didn't win the Tour. If he didn't win, no one won anything.

Disco was a thing in the 1970's NOT the 1980's.